From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blushed} (bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.]
1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton.
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster.
He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper.
2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak.
3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blush \Blush\, verb (used with an object)
1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.]
To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak.
2. To express or make known by blushing.
I'll blush you thanks. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull.
2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. --Lyttleton.
{At first blush}, or {At the first blush}, at the first appearance or view. ''At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France.'' --Hakluyt.
Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. ''All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,'' etc. --Locke.
{To put to the blush}, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: {bloom}, {flush}, {rosiness}]
2: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) [syn: {flush}]
verb
1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: {crimson}, {flush}, {redden}]
2: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "blush": be guilty, blanch, bloom, blossom, blushing, change color, color, color up, coloring, crimson, crimsoning, darken, fieriness, flame, flush, flushing, glow, grow red, healthy glow, hectic, hectic flush, incandescence, look black, look guilty, mantle, mantling, pale, pink, pudency, pudicity, redden, reddening, redness, rose, rosiness, rouge, rubefacient, rubescence, rufescence, squirm with self-consciousness, stammer, suffusion, turn color, turn pale, turn red, warm color, warmth, warmth of color, whiten, whiteness
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